Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions

This course is intended for students who have experience building vertically scaled applications. Â Students should also have experience with the Microsoft Azure platform and a basic understanding of the services offered in Azure.
This course offers students the opportunity to take an existing web application and expand its functionality as part of moving it to Azure. Â The course does not require any existing experience with the ASP.NET platform. Â This course focuses on the architectural considerations and decisions necessary when building a highly available solution in the cloud. Â This course also prepares the students for the 70-532: Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions certification exam.

About the Course

Review the services available in the Azure platform and the Management Portals used to manage the service instances.

create a Virtual Machine using the Azure Management Portal and create an image of the VM.

create an Azure Web Site and publish an existing ASP.NET web application to the site.

create an Azure SQL server and database.

describe and identify the common practices and patterns for building resilient and scalable web applications that will be hosted in Azure.

Create an Azure Cloud Service project in Visual Studio 2013 and debug locally.

Create a background process using a Azure Worker Role.

create an Azure Table Storage table and manage the table data using the .NET API for Azure Storage.

create Azure Files SMB file share and store documents.

create an Azure Storage Queue instance to store requests.

create an Azure Service Bus queue instance to store requests.

create an Azure Service Bus namespace and use the namespace to connect a cloud web application to the local WCF service.

create a Virtual Machine using the existing SQL template and connect this Virtual Machine to the existing application.

create a test environment using PowerShell and the Azure Service Management CmdLets.

The candidates targeted by this training have basic experience in implementing and monitoring Microsoft Azure solutions. Â Candidates are also proficient with the development tools, techniques and approaches used to build application solutions.

Prerequisites

Before attending this course, students must be able to:

Compare the services available in the Azure platform.

Configure and deploy web applications.

Create Azure Webapps using the gallery.

Deploying and monitoring Azure Webapps.

Create and configure Azure Virtual Machines.

Describe the relationship between Cloud Services and Virtual Machines.